State v. Lightner’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
August 2014
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Irwin · State v. Gaines
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“were off-duty members of the Charlotte Police Department,” ”[t]hey were working in full police uniform and were carrying sidearms,” their”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bates v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.